From slashdot: "On the heels of the PriceWaterHouseCoopers report about the threat of SoftPats to innovation, comes a book by a Harvard B School and Brandeis economics professor about how broken the patent system is in general.
In short their book argues that the entire system is a (stunned
silence) scam. (They actually call it 'a creator of litigation and
uncertainty that threatens the innovation process itself' instead but
that's cause you don't get tenure for using words like 'scam'.)
Interesting to see that its gotten so bad that a professor of
Investment Banking at Harvard even thinks something oughta be done."